Chandrayaan-2 successfully enters Lunar Transfer Trajectory

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14 Aug 2019, 11:39 AM IST

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Chandrayaan-2 leaves earth's orbit

Chandrayaan-2 headed onwards on its path to the moon after the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) early Wednesday successfully carried out a crucial process to manoeuvre India's second lunar probe out of the earth's orbit.

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Reaching moon's orbit on Aug 20

The Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft is expected to reach the moon's orbit on August 20

TNN

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What next?

The spacecraft's liquid engine will be fired again to insert the spacecraft into a lunar orbit. Following this, there will be further four orbit manoeuvres to make the spacecraft enter into its final orbit passing over the lunar poles at a distance of about 100 km from the Moon's surface," the space agency said.

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Systems onboard Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft performing normal

Since its launch by GSLV MkIII-M1 vehicle, all systems onboard Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft are performing normal, the space agency said.